Thursday, 25 July 2013

Talking to bhavesh always amazes me. Unlike a 7 8 year old who ideally aspires to become a doctor,engineer,lawyer,painter or a poet,he wishes to be a joker.

he is fortunate to have a loving family and being the youngest he is the most adored kid.He is the youngest kid at shwas. His intellect and sincerity inspires us to work with him,understand him and mentor him in his academics and discipline.Eventually we transferred him to a private school (samrth balvihar shala, Ahmedabad) from municipality school.

He has always been an outstanding student in his class scoring 90% in 3rd standard.I would like to call him blessed kid because of his intelligence.He has very caring and sharing nature.He is always ready to help others with whatever he can like sharing his pencil,notebook,lunch and at times even with his knowledge.It is our privilege to have him at shwas.

Sunday, 14 July 2013

Shilpa, a 14 year old girl started doing all the household chores when her time should be dedicated to studies and fun, this is story about a shwas girl shilpa.

Shilpa started coming to shwas when she was 10. Her father is a rickshaw driver , mother a housewife and has two younger brothers. She is determined ,hard working, sincere and courageous by nature. Her dream is to become a municipalty teacher and teach kids like her. After completing 8th std from municipalty school her father decided to discontinue her further studies because of financial constraints and also there were no classes aftr 8th in municipalty school , but looking at her dedication towards studies we decidedto admit her in private school so we collected some funds through friendsand families and admitted her in "Samarth balvihar Shala". She was very happy to know this. Her life has totally changed after that ,she now studies for two hours at shwas and then attends her school. Her dedication , sincerity has increased after this . Noticing her art skills which are unbeatableher drawing teacher decided to give her free coaching classes for various art exams. Her fathers view has also changed after realizing how intelligent his daughter is and has decided to teach her till college. She is a true motivator for all her community kids and also the first girl in her family to study aftr 8th std.

Shwas is an effort started by a group of volunteers to teach the
underprivileged kids of Gulbai Tekra area. Started in 2009 year , our aim is to
help them in their curricular activities, teach manners, inculcate sense of
hygiene, and help them follow and fulfill their dreams, and gain recognition in
the society. We initially started at a garden in the vicinity of Gulbai Tekra
but because of the open space the kids were not able to concentrate there. All
pieces seemed to fit well when Yuva Unstoppable helped us get permission to
teach the kids at Municipality school every weekend for 2 hours. Besides teaching
school curriculum we also celebrate various festivals with them. After teaching
and spending time with them we realized that some of the kids are very
intelligent and so we helped them secure admission in good private schools.
Since we have been with the kids for years now, we have come to categorize know
kids who might not be ‘that’ intelligent but are good in other activities like
dance, drama, drawing, stitching, and other such activities. We work
assiduously towards imparting training in such vocational activities so that
they can earn their livelihood and don’t have to do labor work. This is our
small effort in bringing change in the society .